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Originally Posted by mav1178
Again: just because you get a ticket doesn't mean you are in violation. It simply means you are possibly in violation.
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It means you have been
accused of violating the law, and in this case the accusation was false and not based on any legitimate evidence. By swearing to a ticket, the cop was not saying that he was
possibly in violation. He was making an official accusation.
This guy passed with the baffles removed from his exhaust. That means it was even quieter when the cop ticketed him and nowhere near the legal limit. The law allows the cop to issue citations based on his judgment, presuming him to be an expert with sufficient training to make such a judgment call. So, if he falsely accused this guy of a violation based on nothing more than his judgment, either he hasn't received sufficient training and wasn't qualified to make that determination, or he decided on his own to issue the citation without any basis in law just because he didn't like the sound.
Either scenario is an abuse of power, because it subjects the citizen to a process of proving his own innocence at his own expense and to the benefit of the government. It's frivolous prosecution. That's not freedom.